star-gazer

Example Sentences

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I've been a star-gazer all my life—from my habit of being58 "out late," I guess; and the things have always seemed to me alive.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

Skinny legs he had, an’ a chest as thin as paper; but aloft he carried more sail ’n the law allows—sky-scraper, star-gazer, an’, ay! even the curse-o’-God-over-all.

From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman

I am wilful, violent, capricious, weak, Wound in a web of my own spinning-wheel, A star-gazer, a riband in the wind...

From Complete Short Works of George Meredith by Meredith, George

When 'Sir Sampson Legand' says to 'Foresight,' 'Look up, old star-gazer!

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

The star-gazer took his glass, looked up, and said, 'Five.'

From Grimm's Fairy Tales by Grimm, Wilhelm